Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Travel Experiences: 3rd century BCE – 8th century CE

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Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Travel Experiences

3rd century BCE – 8th century CE

Edited by: Susanne Luther , Pieter B. Hartog and Clare E. Wilde

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2023

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Volume 16 | Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – Tension, Transmission, Transformation

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Travel and pilgrimage have become central research topics in recent years. Some archaeologists and historians have applied globalization theories to ancient intercultural connections. Classicists have rediscovered travel as a literary topic in Greek and Roman writing. Scholars of early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have been rethinking long-familiar pilgrimage practices in new interdisciplinary contexts.

This volume contributes to this flourishing field of study in two ways. First, the focus of its contributions is on experiences of travel. Our main question is: How did travelers in the ancient world experience and make sense of their journeys, real or imaginary, and of the places they visited? Second, by treating Jewish, Christian, and Islamic experiences together, this volume develops a longue durée perspective on the ways in which travel experiences across these three traditions resembled each other. By focusing on "experiences of travel," we hope to foster interaction between the study of ancient travel in the humanities and that of broader human experience in the social sciences.

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Pieter B. Hartog, Groningen, the Netherlands;Susanne Luther, Göttingen, Germany; Clare E. Wilde, Auckland, New Zealand.

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"Er sollte in keiner bibelwissenschaftlichen, judaistischen, islamwissenschaftlichen oder althistorischen Bibliothek fehlen." Christian Wetz in: H-Soz-Kult, 26.07.2024, www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-140689

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
List of Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Travel Experiences Pieter B. Hartog and Susanne Luther Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
“And as They Travelled Eastward” (Gen 11:2): Travel in the Book of Genesis and the Anonymous Travelers in the Tower of Babel Account Robin B. Ten Hoopen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	11
The Consolations of Travel: Reading Seneca’s Ad Marciam vis-à-vis Paul of Tarsus Christoph Jedan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	33
The (Missing) Motif of “Returning Home” from an Otherworldly Journey in Menippean Literature and the New Testament Nils Neumann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	55
The Educational Aspect of the Lukan Travel Narrative: Jesus as a Πεπαιδευμένος Sigurvin Lárus Jónsson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	73
Acts of the Apostles—A Celebration of Uncertainty? Constructing a Dialogical Self for the Early Jesus Movement Pieter B. Hartog Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	97
“Today or Tomorrow We Will Go to Such and Such a City” (Jas 4:13): The Experience of Interconnectivity and the Mobility of Norms in the Ancient Globalized World Susanne Luther Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	113
Heavenly Journey and Divine Epistemology in the Fourth Gospel Theo Witkamp and Jan Krans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	145
Following Vespasian in His Footsteps: Movement and (E)motion Management in Josephus’ Judean War Eelco Glas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	161
Religion on the Road—Nehalennia Revisited: Voyagers Addressing a North Sea Deity in the Second Century CE Gert van Klinken Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	181
Mapping Cosmological Space in the Apocalypse of Paul and the Visio Pauli: The Actualization of Virtual Spatiality in Two Pauline Apocalyptical Journeys based on 2 Cor 12:2–4 Benjamin Lensink Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	189
The Travels of Barnabas: From the Acts of the Apostles to Late Antique Hagiographic Literature Tobias Nicklas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	229
Rabbinic Geography: Between the Imaginary and Real Catherine Hezser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	251
The Journey of Zayd Ibn ʿAmr: In Search of True Worship Paul L. Heck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	269
Nautical Fiction of Late Antiquity: Jews and Christians Traveling by Sea Reuven Kiperwasser and Serge Ruzer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	295
Monasteries as Travel Loci for Muslims and Christians (500–1000 CE) Clare E. Wilde Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	313
Sachregister Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	337
Stellenregister Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	341

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eBook published on:

October 4, 2023

eBook ISBN:

9783110717488

Hardcover published on:

October 4, 2023

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110717419

Paperback published on:

June 30, 2025

Paperback ISBN:

9783112213766

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

Front matter:

7

Main content:

356

Coloured Illustrations:

10

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110717488

eBook ISBN: 9783110717488

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110717419

Paperback ISBN: 9783112213766

Keywords for this book

Travel; experience; pilgrimage; routes.

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Forschende im Bereich Theology, Geschichte, Judaistik und Islamwissenschaften.

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Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Travel Experiences

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